Mikolaj Przybyla

GL OPTIC, COO

Mikolaj Przybyla

GL OPTIC, COO

Biography

Mikolaj Przybyla is the COO of GL Optic Lichtmesstechnik GmbH based in Weilheim an der Teck, Germany. He has been with the company from its very beginnings, when in 2010 the GL Optic brand was launched by JUST Normlicht. Since that time he has been responsible for worldwide marketing and product development of light measurement systems for LED lighting.
Mikolaj is IES member, holds an MA degree in Marketing Management and post graduate diploma in Lighting Technology, as well as Plastics and Rubber Processing. Prior to GL OPTIC, over the 10-year period between 1999 and 2010, Mikolaj Przybyla held an executive leadership role in PLASTIVAN, a Belgian plastic processing manufacturer.

Constant changes in LED technology allow for more and more sophisticated and customer oriented solutions. When designing and offering new lighting products we need to focus on customer demands but we should also pay attention to the minimum technical and biological requirements, since lighting has a major impact on humans. The human centric lighting concept takes into consideration many different aspects of lighting technology along with biology. Better color perception, lower impact of light pulsation and proper tuning of color temperature and illumination level is in line with the human centric lighting concept.

What are the unbiased criteria for the quality of human centric lighting? How to evaluate which products and installations are better for humans? This presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of up-to-date lighting quality metrics which are currently being introduced or have already become a new standard. From color rendering of IES TM-30 and the new CIE Color rendition through optical flicker and SVM suggested by Philips to the new Circadian Metrics proposed, we will share our experience with measurement instrumentation and procedures. We will also present and explain how to understand new metrics for product evaluation with human centric lighting in mind.